Lum and Abner - 1933-01-02 Hunting The Lion

Summary

Episode Summary: Lum and Abner - 1933-01-02 Hunting The Lion

Podcast Information:

• Title: Harold's Old Time Radio
• Host/Author: Harold's Old Time Radio
• Episode: Lum and Abner - 1933-01-02 Hunting The Lion
• Release Date: February 19, 2025

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Introduction to Pine Ridge's Predicament

The episode opens with the classic narrator setting the scene in the quaint town of Pine Ridge. An unexpected crisis has struck the community: an elephant has escaped from the jailhouse, having inadvertently released a "terrified lion" into the town. The local residents are on edge, and Lum and Abner, the beloved duo, take it upon themselves to address the chaos.

Narrator:
"...the elephant had pulled the door off the jailhouse and released the old lion on the terrified community..."
[00:48]

Lum and Abner's Hunting Strategy

Lum arrives at the garage where Abner is preparing for the night's hunt. A playful debate ensues about the unconventional method Abner has chosen to capture the lion—using an elephant as a hunting partner.

Lum:
"Listen, Abner, what in the name of common sense are you up to now?"
[03:09]

Abner:
"Well, I'm getting things all ready to go on that lion hunt tonight, Lum."
[03:14]

Lum expresses skepticism about using an elephant for hunting, questioning the practicality and effectiveness of such a method.

Lum:
"How would you know when they struck the trail? Aren't they supposed to bark?"
[04:07]

Abner:
"According to that book, Caroline, they don't. Use dogs big game hunting in Africa."
[04:18]

Debating the Use of an Elephant vs. Dogs

Lum argues in favor of traditional hunting dogs, highlighting their ability to communicate and track effectively—qualities an elephant lacks.

Lum:
"You can't make no hunting dog out of an elephant. How would you know when they struck the trail?"
[04:17]

Abner remains steadfast, referring to a book by Dick Huddleston that advocates for their unique approach.

Abner:
"That right there. Dick Huddleston gave it to me to read. Tells all about line hunting."
[04:26]

Introducing the Contest for Naming the Elephant

The conversation shifts when Dick Huddleston arrives at the garage. Lum seizes the opportunity to announce a community contest to name the elephant, offering a new Ford radio as the prize.

Lum:
"We're going to give a new Ford radio to the person who sends in the name the judges select as the best."
[10:08]

Huddleston expresses concerns about fulfilling the prize, but Lum reassures him.

Lum:
"These Ford radios will fit any car here."
[10:24]

Community Involvement and Final Preparations

Lum makes a public announcement over the party line network, urging listeners to participate in the naming contest. Simultaneously, Abner unveils his elaborate setup atop the elephant, complete with a repurposed car body to accommodate the hunters.

Narrator:
"...if you have a name to suggest for the elephant, send it to Laman Abner in care of your station. You may be the winner of that Ford radio."
[12:56]

Lum and Abner engage in humorous banter about the impracticalities of their hunting gear, emphasizing the comedic elements typical of their adventures.

Lum:
"What was that on that elephant there? It looks like the body of an old used car."
[12:00]

Abner:
"That's what we're going to ride in. This will make the five passenger out of it."
[12:09]

Narrator's Closing Remarks

The narrator wraps up the episode by reminding listeners about the ongoing contest and the importance of choosing a Ford vehicle, seamlessly blending promotional content with the storyline.

Narrator:
"Know the fact before you buy a car and you'll buy a Ford V8 for instance. Know the facts before you buy a car. All the facts in fairness yourself."
[12:56]

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Notable Quotes

• Lum on Hunting Strategy:
  "You can't make no hunting dog out of an elephant."
  [04:07]

• Abner on Preparing for the Hunt:
  "I'm getting things all ready to go on that lion hunt tonight, Lum."
  [03:14]

• Lum Introducing the Contest:
  "We're going to give a new Ford radio to the person who sends in the name the judges select as the best."
  [10:08]

• Narrator on Community Safety:
  "The whole community scared to death. They're just afraid to go out after dark."
  [07:14]

Conclusion

This episode of Harold's Old Time Radio masterfully intertwines humor, community spirit, and classic old-time radio elements through the adventures of Lum and Abner. Their inventive yet humorous attempt to capture a lion using an elephant provides both entertainment and a subtle promotion of Ford products, staying true to the golden age of radio's style and charm.

Transcript

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[Narrator]

Howdy everybody. Here we are all ready to take you down to Pine Ridge for this evening's visit with Lum and Abner, whose everyday experiences are sent for you each evening except Saturday and Sunday by your local Ford dealer. You have asked, is the new Ford V8 Economical to drive? Tonight your Ford dealer answers that question. Answers you with the strongest official proof possible to obtain a certificate of performance given the Ford V8 by the contest Board of the American Automobile Association. This certificate says the undersigned certify in the name of the Contest Board American Automobile association that is Washington, D.C. and over the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway a Ford V8 1933 two door sedan, motor number 1833-2364 of strictly stock class, manufactured by the Ford Motor Company and driven by contest board personnel was timed at 182 hours and 50 minutes over the distance of 5022 and 110 miles, an average of 27.468 miles per hour. From a standing start on June 20th to the 28th, 1933, establishing an average of 22.532 miles per gallon of gasol. Total oil used 1.578 gallons, an average of 3182 and a half miles per gallon. Total gasoline used 222.89 gallons, an average of 22.532 Miles per gallon. Water added none. Signed Chester S. Ricker, official representative, Ev Rickenbacher, chairman of the board, P.W. lewis, technical representative and V. E. Allen, the Secretary. In fairness to yourself, see the new Ford before you buy. Well, when we left our old friends down at Pine Ridge last Thursday, the elephant had pulled the door off the jailhouse and released the old lion on the terrified community. Blum and Abner have been trying their best to capture the lion ever since, but so far have not succeeded. As we look in on Pine Ridge today, We find Abner back at the garage preparing for another trip into the mountains in search of the nuisance that is caus such a disturbance. Lum has just arrived on the scene.

[Lum]

Listen, Abner, what in the name of common sense are you up to now?

[Abner]

Well, I'm getting things all ready to go on that line hunt tonight, Lum.

[Lum]

Well, you're not aiming on taking this elephant, are you?

[Abner]

Why, sure.

[Lum]

Who ever hear to huntin lions with the elephant?

[Abner]

Well, now, that's what that book says.

[Lum]

What book?

[Abner]

Why, that right there. Dick Huddleston give it to me to read. Tells all about line hunting.

[Lum]

I see it. What we better do is get some dogs to hunt that lion with.

[Abner]

No, no. According to that book, Caroline, they don't.

[Lum]

Use dogs big game hunting in Africa. Yeah, Well, I don't care what they say in here. I know in reason they don't use elephants to hunt lions with. They can't even bark. How would you know when they struck the trail?

[Abner]

Well, how do you know if they don't bark on trail?

[Lum]

Well, did you ever see an elephant a barking?

[Abner]

Why, no, I never. But I never seen one on trail neither.

[Lum]

Well, you can't make no hunting dog out of an elephant, I can tell you that right now. Now, wouldn't that elephant there look fine running a rabbit across the field or setting under a tree barking at a little squirrel?

[Abner]

Well, now, I don't think he hunt like dog does long. Now, look there now, where I got the page turned down. Shows a picture of them hunting lions in Apache right in that bush.

[Lum]

Where?

[Abner]

Why, right there. Right in there, Ted.

[Lum]

Well, they're just riding elephants there.

[Abner]

Huh?

[Lum]

The elephants ain't a huntin the lines. You see, they have beaters that go on ahead and run the lines by. And these fellers here just captured.

[Abner]

Yeah, well, now, I figured on me and you riding baby here like they're doing in that picture.

[Dick Huddleston]

That long?

[Lum]

Yeah. Now, you can ride up there if you want to, but I ain't gonna try to ride no elephants back. You see, these hunters in this picture's got a seat up there. See there?

[Abner]

Yeah. Well, now, you just wait. Now. Me and Cedric's got a scheme worked out where there'll be room for all of us up there on his back.

[Lum]

Whereabouts is Cedric at?

[Abner]

Oh, I sent him over the house for some stuff while ago. I'm trying to get baby all rigged up so we can strike out right after supper tonight.

[Lum]

Abner, I wish you'd quit calling that elephant bab.

[Abner]

Well, I got to call him something that's the only name we got, Fern.

[Lum]

Well, just call him Elephant after the contest is over, then we'll have a regular name. Fern.

[Abner]

Yeah, I thought some of them names that's already been sent in would be all right.

[Lum]

Yeah, there's some good names suggested all right. But we don't want to do no deciding until we close the contest. Then we'll let the committee pick one out.

[Abner]

Yeah. Well, have you made the announcement about the contest or the party line yet?

[Lum]

No, I'll attend to that again. I go back to the office.

[Abner]

As you know, I just looking at baby, I mean Elephant while I golem. I believe he's deformed.

[Lum]

Deformed?

[Abner]

Yes, sir. Now just look at him there. He looks like he ain't big enough for himself, don't he?

[Lum]

Ain't big enough for you? What you talking about?

[Abner]

Well, his skin don't fit him very good. It's a way yonder too big for him.

[Lum]

Well, he just ain't growed to it yet. He ain't more than half growed, you know.

[Abner]

You know what they do? Just give him a skin that's big enough for a grown elephant and let him grow to it.

[Lum]

I don't know, Abner. This is the first experience I've ever had. They just ain't built for style. They run more for comfort.

[Abner]

Yeah, well, there ain't much shape to them, I'll say that. Now just look at them legs. It just might lie straight up and down. Looks like his legs just run down the ground. Stops all of a sudden like he bogged up in the mud or something, don't you?

[Lum]

Hey, they funny Bill critters. Wait a minute, your honor. Comes Dick Huddleston driving up in front. I said get back in the office. Dan went out to deliver a new car a while ago.

[Abner]

Yeah, you just go ahead and talk to Dick, Lum. I'll finish up. Gettin ready for this line, huh?

[Lum]

Try your way one more time, Abner. But if we don't catch this lion tonight, we'll get some dogs and trail him down.

[Abner]

Dog as we'll catch him tonight.

[Narrator]

All right.

[Lum]

Just wait till you see what old.

[Abner]

Me and Cedric's got rigged up. This book here has learned me all about lion hunt.

[Lum]

Well, you needn't account on me riding that elephant, I'll tell you that right now. Well, howdy, Dick. How are you today?

[Dick Huddleston]

Well, howdy, Lum. The wife said you telephoned you on and see me about something.

[Lum]

Yeah, I'm glad you come over, Dick. Come on in the office. I'll explain it to you.

[Dick Huddleston]

What's happening there?

[Lum]

Oh, he's rigging up the elephant. Getting ready to go hunt that lion again tonight.

[Dick Huddleston]

Haven't located him yet, huh?

[Lum]

No. He can find plenty places where he's been, but we can't seem to find where he's at. Go ahead in.

[Dick Huddleston]

Well, thanks, Bob. I've been hearing a lot of complaints about that lion too.

[Lum]

Yeah, and so have we, Granny. Trying our best to locate him.

[Dick Huddleston]

Well, he's got the whole community scared to death. They're just afraid to go out after dark. Afraid he'll jump out of the bushes after them or something.

[Lum]

Well, he wouldn't bother nobody. Couldn't hurt him if he wanted to. He ain't got a tooth in his head. Sit down. Sit down.

[Dick Huddleston]

Thanks, Ma. Well, I know, Court. He ain't got no teeth.

[Lum]

But it's just the idea of a.

[Dick Huddleston]

Lion being turned loose in the community is what's scaring him. When he starts that roaring, why, you can hear him for miles. Believe me now, the folks around here ain't venturing out after night.

[Lum]

Oh, folks had been crawling up here making complaints about it. And I told him we was doing all we could to catch him. It ain't a thing for him to be scared of.

[Dick Huddleston]

Ezra Seastrunk was telling me that him and his whole family slept in the storm cellar last.

[Lum]

Well, I do know. Feared of old Toothless lying. I slept right in my house. Don't catch me staying all night. No storm cellar. Just locked all the doors and winders and went right on off to sleep. It's a little warm, a little close to all the winders down, but that's a heat better than the storm cellar.

[Dick Huddleston]

Yeah, you're scared just like all the rest of us. No, no, you might as well admit it.

[Lum]

No, sir. I thought. Sure, we caught him Saturday night over there on old Piney Mountain.

[Narrator]

Yeah.

[Lum]

Yeah. Abner had one of them coal mining lights that they fashioned on their caps when they.

[Dick Huddleston]

Oh, yeah, I was on carbide light.

[Lum]

He had one of them fastened on his hat or trying to shine the lion's eyes. Like Uncle Henry Lunsford used to hunt deer of a night.

[Abner]

Yeah.

[Lum]

Well, we walked up on this critter the other night and there's two big eyes are staring.

[Dick Huddleston]

Was it the lion?

[Lum]

No, but we thought it was.

[Narrator]

What was it?

[Lum]

Well, I. I don't like to say, Dick. We couldn't tell, of course. All we could see was eyes till we got right up there.

[Dick Huddleston]

Now, what was it?

[Lum]

L. You want Joyous about it, will you?

[Dick Huddleston]

No, of course not.

[Lum]

What was it? Well, sir, it was that wild steer, Luther Phillips. And when Abner shined that light in his eyes, he'd taken in after us and put us up a tree and our grannies. We had to stay there till daylight Sunday morning.

[Dick Huddleston]

Well, that ain't no way to hunt lines. Anyway, I gave Abner a book on how to hunt big game in Africa. Some pointers out of that. That'll help you catch it.

[Lum]

Yeah, I think you just done that to have some fun out of Africa.

[Dick Huddleston]

Why, no, it's a good book, all right, Granny.

[Lum]

He's got it in his head now he's a big game hunter. Getting that poor elephant all rigged up for a big lion hunt tonight.

[Dick Huddleston]

I do know. Say, what was you want to see me about, Lama? I've got to get on back to work.

[Lum]

Oh, why? Me and Abner is putting on a sort of a contest to get a name for the elephant. And where'd you get the idea to.

[Dick Huddleston]

Put on a contest?

[Lum]

Well, you know, when I telephoned Sister Simpson the other day down there at your store to see if she could think up a good name.

[Dick Huddleston]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I remember now. Yeah.

[Lum]

Well, there must have been a lot of folks listening in on the part. Party line for. We've got a whole batch of letters here. Names, different ones he sent in. Yeah, yeah, that's what give us the idea to turn it into a regular contest and give a prize for the best name sent in.

[Dick Huddleston]

What kind of a prize? You ain't gonna give them.

[Lum]

Why, me and Abner decided to give the person that sends in the best name for the elephant a new Ford radio for their car.

[Dick Huddleston]

Well, say, that's a nice prize. Yeah, but suppose that somebody wins it. Lum doesn't have a Ford.

[Lum]

Well, these Ford radios will fit any car here.

[Narrator]

Oh, they will?

[Lum]

Sure.

[Dick Huddleston]

Well, that's all right, then. Find out. Where did I come in on.

[Lum]

Well, we wanted you and Grandpappy Spears and Doc Cook to be the judges to pick out the best name for the elephant.

[Dick Huddleston]

Oh, no, now, Lum, I'd rather not do.

[Lum]

No, now, there ain't no way out of this, Jack. I ain't asking you, I'm just telling you. You're one of the committees. Ian Abner or Dan Davis can't do it on account of being connected with the garage here, you know.

[Narrator]

No?

[Dick Huddleston]

No. Well, unless you've done decided it, Lum. Well, I guess I'll ask the serve.

[Lum]

Well, I've done decided it, all right. Now, I'll call up the folks on the party line and tell them about the contest.

[Dick Huddleston]

I'm just afraid you're getting me in for a lot of work, Ron. That's what you're doing. Now, don't tell the folks on the party line that I'm one of the judges.

[Lum]

No, I ain't. Wait a minute. Everybody's listening in now. Howdy, everybody. This is the Pine Ridge Motor Company broadcasting over the party line Network. Plum Eders, president and left vice president, doing a talking. I got an extra special announcement to make today. You folks all know the elephant at Abner traded for a few days ago. Well, we're trying to find a good name for him. So we're going to give a new Ford radio to the person who sends in the name the judges select as the best. Just mail them to Lum and Abner and we'll get them. Now, this contest will run till Thursday of this week, so better get busy and send us in a name. I reckon that's all.

[Dick Huddleston]

What in the world is that out in front there? Looks like Abner coming up out there.

[Lum]

Wait just a minute. Wait a minute. Goodbye, everybody. Well, for the great I am.

[Dick Huddleston]

What's that on that elephant there?

[Lum]

I don't know. That's something Abner's doing. Come on out.

[Dick Huddleston]

Come out there a minute.

[Lum]

Abner. What a non name. What's that business you got up on that elephant's back?

[Abner]

I know that. This is what they call a hoodah in that boat. That's what we're going to ride in.

[Lum]

It looks like a body off an old used car.

[Abner]

That's what it is. I told you. This will make the five passenger out of it. Where most of them just got a box up there we've got a regular shoe.

[Dick Huddleston]

Dang, if that elephant don't look fine. That body off that used car up on him there.

[Lum]

Where in the world did you get that outfit you got on there? Undoubtedly you don't aim to wear a getter.

[Abner]

You got a game hunter's outfit.

[Lum]

Why, you've got enough junk there to start a secondhand store.

[Dick Huddleston]

You got a dish pan upside down there that you're wearing for a hat, isn't it?

[Lum]

Look at them short pants and them boots. Now, if you don't look aside.

[Abner]

Look at the guns we've got here, Ron. Me and you going right up here in the front seat. And Cedric's going to beat the line out of the brush. I know that. We'll show them how big game hunting.

[Lum]

Ought to be there Granny's Dick, I know it was a mistake to ever give that book on how to hunt big game Dabner and ain't got a lick of anything.

[Narrator]

Well, anyway, don't forget, if you have a name to suggest for the elephant, send it to Laman Abner in care of your station. You may be the winner of that Ford radio. Know the fact before you buy a car and you'll buy a Ford V8 for instance. The all steel electrically welded body versus the body of wood and steel. Fact number one, steel doesn't need wood for strength or protection. Two, the steel and wood body is not much stronger structurally than its wooden frame. Three, under extreme stress or shock, the steel body remains intact, dented perhaps, but not crushed. For it is more expensive to make an all steel body than to make a wooden frame and then nail steel panels on it until experience proved it. On wise Ford mixed wood and steel in bodies and wheels. It was the best way then, but the state of the art has advanced. No one argues now that the electrically welded one piece wheel, such as the Ford wheel needs to be strengthened by adding wood to it. Know the facts before you buy a car. All the facts in fairness yourself. See the new Ford before you buy. In closing, we want to remind you to listen for the special announcement to be given during the old Time Sociable Friday night. Lumen Abner will tell you about a very interesting contest in which they will give away a new Ford V8 every Friday night and everyone is invited to take part. Gene Hamilton speaking for your local Ford dealer who invites you to follow the experiences of Lumen Abner tomorrow evening at this same time.

[Lum]

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